Hi! I am happy! I got a lot of positive feedback. When and if you review this chapter, I have a poll that needs voting. I have some plot ideas of I go more than three chapters.

Choice 1: Do NOT continue more then two chapters after this.

Choice 2: Please DO continue more than two chapters after this.

Choice 3: Stop it right here.

Oh, and the Triplets were born past midnight, so they were born on Diego's birthday. Needless to say, he got the best birthday present ever.

P.S. I have no beta, all mistakes are mine.


Gabriella was frozen with shock. She just stood there, rubbing Caleb's hand with her finger, for who knows how long. Finally, she forced herself to look over. The mom was signing the necessary papers for the heart transplant. The doctor smiled reassuringly, and let the mother cry on his shoulder for a while. Soon, she stood up, walking over to her now pale baby and held her hand. Crying, she spoke to Paige.

"Hey, sweetie. Sorry you couldn't live, but do you want to save another baby's life? Thought so." Still crying, she let the doctors take her baby off for Pre-Operation arrangement. The doctor then walked up to Gabriella, placing a hand on her shoulder.

"Ma'am? We found a heart for Caleb." Gabriella decided to respect the woman's privacy, and decided to pretend she hadn't overheard the conversation between the mother and Paige's doctor.

"What? Really?" She said, grinning from ear to ear.

"Yes. But we have to get him into surgery right away if her is going to live. And I must warn you, he has a small fever and the infecting could cause him to go into cardiac arrest and he might not pull through. But if we wait, he will most certainly die." Gabriella nodded, holding Caleb's hand as they unhooked him from the machines that could not be moved and wheel him off into Pre-Op. Gabriella quickly found a phone and called Troy to tell him the good news. He picked up on the third ring.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Troy, it's me." Gabriella said. He cheered up.

"Is Caleb OK?" It was their standard question when the other called from the NICU.

"Yes, they found him a heart. He has gone into surgery already. Could you come up?" Troy nodded, and then, realizing she couldn't see him, spoke instead.

"Yes. I will drop Kessie and Diego off at your mom's first, but Cole and Caden come, right?"

"Yes, the doctors want to check them to make sure they are over their colds yet, anyway, please hurry! I want you to be here as soon as possible."

"OK. Love, ya." Troy hung up and started rounding the kids up.


An hour and a half later, sue to much traffic, Troy arrived with Cole and Caden in their triplet stroller. One seat had remained empty for the last two months, but was going to be filled soon if everything went right. As soon as Troy walked into the O.R. (Operating Room), he saw Gabriella pacing around in front of the window. The transplant team had already transplanted the heart, and were making sure everything was right with Caleb's vital organs before stitching him up. Troy walked over to Gabriella, leaving Cole and Caden a few feet away.

"Is he OK? Where did they find a heart?" Gabriella smiled at his questioning tone.

"He's fine. The doctor said he should be out of surgery soon. Um, the heart came from a little girl that died not long ago in the NICU, not twenty feet from us." Gabriella started crying again. She knew that to have Caleb live would cost another baby it's life, but she never imagined watching the baby die. It was horrible, but it was a miracle.

"It's OK, Gabriella." Troy attempted to calm her down. Suddenly, Paige's mother walked into the room. Her eye's were red and puffy because she had been crying.

"Hello." She said shyly.

"Hi," Gabriella replied, walking over.

"Um, are you two the parents of Caleb Bolton, the little boy that Paige saved?" She wiped tears away as she spoke. Gabriella nodded softly and Paige's mother continued. "I'm Kelly Dentin. I just wanted to talk to you."

"Sure. I am so sorry about what you are going through. I understand how it must be for you." Gabriella said. Troy walked away slowly, sensing that this was a conversation better left alone for the women.

"How could you?" Kelly asked through her tears. Gabriella took a deep breath. As much as it pained her to talk about Jesson and Hope, she knew it would help this mother to know other people had been where she was now, and they had made it through.

"My son, Diego, had to deliver my second child at home when I went into labor at five months. He was three, and accidentally cut Jesson in the stomach as he was cutting the cord. He has had to live with that, and so have we. My second daughter, Hope, was born at three months and she died within minutes." Gabriella explained, on the verge of tears herself. Kelly nodded.

"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked."

"No, it's OK." Suddenly, an idea came to Gabriella. "Would you like to hold one of my babies?" She asked. Kelly, who had never gotten to hold her babies because they were so fragile, nodded. Gabriella smiled and reached into the stroller, taking the now awake Caden out.

"This is Caden. He is Cole and Caleb's triplet." The woman smiled as Caden wiggled in her arms, gurgling and cooing. Laughing, she wiped more tears away as Caden swatted at one that had fallen on his face. Kicking his legs up into the air, he tried to grab one, but missed. He squealed loudly and turned to Gabriella. She smiled and gave him his bottle, handing it to Kelly to hold. She smiled for the first time since Paige had died.

"He's beautiful."

"Thank you." Just then Cole started whining. Gabriella laughed and picked him up. "He likes to be the center of attention." Kelly laughed a little too as Caden scrunched up his face and started crying.


Two hours later, Caleb was out of surgery and in Post-Operation. Kelly, who had gotten permission from Gabriella and Troy to see Caleb, was standing over his crib as Troy and Gabriella talked to the doctor.

"So, is he OK?" Gabriella asked.

"Well, he seems to be accepting the new heart all right, and shows no signs of rejecting it, but still, we have him on anti-rejection drugs until we know more. He is a healthy pink color and I think he will be waking up soon." He smiled and placed Caleb's chart on the crib again, walking off to do his rounds. Gabriella walked over to little Caleb's crib and smiled in on him. He was going to be alright.


Nine Months Later -- Two weeks until the triplets birthday + Diego's.

Cole was toddling across the floor and Caden was crawling, though with a lot of trouble. Him and Caleb weren't going to start physical therapy until they were two, so their CP was limiting thema lot. Caden had just started crawling recently, and still had yet to say his first word. The doctors said that yes, the speech part of his brain had been effected and he would need to under go major speech therapy.

Cole's first word had not been mama, or Dada, but instead, Cabe! Caleb was now doing great. He was nineteen pounds and twenty inches. Still small for an almost one-year-old, but he was still doing great. He was showing no signs of rejection to the heart, and Kelly had delivered another baby girl just two months ago. She was extremely healthy, and her name was Dannie.

And Gabriella was eight months pregnant. The Bolton house was crazy. And I mean, CRAZY. Four boys and two girls. Yes, the ultrasound said girl. Kessie had a sister. They had already agreed on a name. It was easy, because they had let Kessie pick. Their daughter was going to be named Kenzi Michelle Bolton.

As of this moment, Troy was at work, Diego was at school, Kessie was at pre-pre-K and the triplets were sleeping. Falling back against the couch, Gabriella wondered why she hadn't shot Troy for getting her pregnant so many times. But she wanted to give Kessie a sister. After this one, she was putting her foot down and getting on birth control. She just couldn't do it! Diego was almost six, Kessie was three, and the triplets were almost one, and another baby girl on the way. Ugh.

Gabriella stood to go start dinner before everyone came home and she was stuck in the middle of a mad house. As she walked down the hall, she felt water dripping down her leg. Her water had broken; she was going into labor.


Yipes! Seventh member of the Bolton family! Well, I made Gabriella almost carry to term this time, so I hope everyone is happy. Danni and the new baby are going to be great friends in the future, just so you know.

Oh, and do you think I rushed this just a bit? Or were you tired of the NICU and Caleb? Now Kenzi is on he rway!

PLEASE REVIEW and refrain from killing me!